Papers of Norman C. Drury relating to the Government Press in East Africa

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1625
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1914-1963
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 volumes, 2 boxes

Scope and Content

Typescript account of the early history of the Government Press in Kenya and Tanganyika, from 1917, by Drury, the first Government Printer; with related correspondence, 1959-1960, and press cuttings, maps, printed material and photographs relating to East Africa, 1914-1963.

Administrative / Biographical History

Norman C. Drury, first Government Printer in Kenya and Tanganyika.

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Note

Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

Other Finding Aids

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Listed as no. 967 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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